Lane v. Boicourt

The material facts stated in the appellee’s complaint arc these: The appellant was engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for fifteen years prior to the 17th day of April, 1883, and represented himself to be skilled as a physician, surgeon and accoucher. On the day named the appellant was employed by the appellee to give professional care and attention to his wife, for which compensation was to be paid The appellee’s wife was brought to bed in child-birth, and the appellant was employed to give her such professional care as she required to safely deliver the child, and also to bestow…